Oracle Time is looking for a Junior Editor with a serious watch habit

There aren’t many jobs where knowing too much about watches is an advantage rather than a warning sign.

Oracle Time is hiring a full-time Junior Editor, and the brief is simple enough. We’re looking for someone who can write, think visually and cares about watches with the kind of intensity that makes other people check the time and move the conversation on.

You don’t need a journalism degree or a wall of published bylines.

You do need taste, curiosity, strong opinions, and the ability to make someone care about a watch beyond its diameter, calibre and water resistance.

At a glance

The role inside Oracle Time

The Junior Editor sits close to everything we make.

A typical month could mean writing a hands-on review, covering a new release before the embargo lifts, interviewing a designer, attending a brand event, shaping a feature for print and turning the same idea into something that works online or on social.

Oracle Time has always treated watches as more than objects on a spec sheet.

The best stories might be about the person who designed a case, the period that shaped a dial, the culture around a complication, or the collector who saw something in a watch before everyone else caught up.

That’s the work.

Finding the thread, making the argument and giving readers a reason to care.

Writing, video and a strong visual instinct

This isn’t a desk-only writing job.

The role reaches across the magazine, website, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and commercial projects, so the right person needs to be comfortable thinking in more than one format.

A print review might become a web article, a short video, a social post and a talking point for a future feature.

You’ll also help plan photoshoots, feed ideas into layouts and appear on camera when the story calls for it.

You don’t need to arrive polished.

We’ll train you, but you should be willing to have a go and sharp enough to understand what makes a watch look, read and feel interesting across different platforms.

Who should apply

We’re open-minded about where the right person comes from.

You might work in watch retail, engineering, teaching, photography, content, design or something completely unrelated.

You might run a small watch blog, spend your weekends comparing vintage references, understand the mechanics of a tourbillon, or have a dangerous level of knowledge about independent microbrands.

Published experience helps, but it isn’t the deciding factor.

We’d rather teach publishing to someone who properly understands watches than teach watches to someone who only likes the idea of writing about them.

The role is full time, with three days a week in our Battlesbridge office in Essex, around 35 minutes from Liverpool Street.

The starting salary is £26,000 to £30,000, depending on experience.

You’ll work directly with the creative team, including the Editorial Director and Digital Editor, and you’ll have bylines in print and online from your first issue.

How to apply

We’re not asking for CVs or cover letters.

Instead, applicants need to complete the form on our careers page with a few basics, the watch that first got them hooked, one feature they’d pitch to Oracle Time and an 800-word response to a set brief.

The brief is deliberately simple.

Make us care about a watch you love.

Every submission will be read, and five shortlisted writers will each receive a paid trial commission before the final appointment is made.

Strong applicants who aren’t selected for the full-time role may also be invited into our paid contributor programme.

If you’re more experienced than the job title suggests, you should still apply.

The scope of the role and the package can be shaped around the right person.

Applications close on Sunday 31 August.

If you know someone whose watch obsession has been waiting for a proper outlet, send this their way.